If you loved Strange Way of Life, try Law of Desire

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Strange Way of Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Law of Desire is

A Madrid apartment in midsummer, the hum of a refrigerator never quite drowning out the tapping of a typewriter. A celebrated film-maker, nursing a lover’s departure, casts his trans sister in a solo play and watches her command the stage. Then the uptight stranger starts calling collect from a phone booth across town. Third-act fireworks from a director who still thinks the heart isn’t bulletproof.

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